Russian Photographer Recalls Death, Beauty Inside Chernobyl’s Fourth Reactor

Wednesday, April 26 , 2017 - 16:37 (EET) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

In 1990, photographer Viktoria Ivleva became the first journalist known to have entered the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Soviet Ukraine, where a deadly explosion and fire on April 26, 1986, triggered the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident and sent a radioactive cloud drifting across the Soviet Union and Europe. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, Ivleva recalls how she managed to sneak into the destroyed reactor with the help of some scientists in 1990 and discusses the eerie ambience there. …read more

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